VINEW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. VINEW is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VINEW?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VINEW is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VINEW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vinewsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VINEW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VINEW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does VINEW mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicdialect
To become mouldy or musty.
Vinew describes bread, cheese or grain going bad through damp rather than through age alone, and the word survives mainly in older dialect glossaries. It is related to a family of forms meaning fusty or fungus-covered, none of which made it into everyday speech.
How VINEW is used
Rare; met chiefly in dialect word lists rather than in ordinary writing.
- The bread began to vinew after a week in the damp cupboard.
- Farmers watched the stored grain to see it would not vinew.
- A cheese left too long in the cellar can vinew quickly.
- The old glossary lists vinew beside several other words for going mouldy.
- Nobody in the shop would have understood if she had said the loaf started to vinew.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VINEW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VINEW
3 longer words begin with VINEW.
Shorter words from the letters in VINEW
Common questions about VINEW
- Is VINEW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VINEW is not in it.
- How many points is VINEW worth?
- VINEW is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VINEW mean?
- To become mouldy or musty.
- What letters can be added to VINEW?
- VINEW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VINEW:
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